{"id":1565,"date":"2022-11-15T10:34:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T10:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/blog\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2023-04-03T12:05:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T12:05:56","slug":"ftx-bitcoin-opposite-according-salvadoran-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/blog\/ftx-bitcoin-opposite-according-salvadoran-president","title":{"rendered":"FTX and Bitcoin Are the Opposite, According to Salvadoran President Bukele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bukele explained that Bitcoin differs from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/coins\/ftx-token\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FTX<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">despite the backlash he received for purchasing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/coins\/bitcoin\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BTC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when markets crashed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Investor confidence was severely shaken by the FTX explosion, which sent shock waves worldwide. Despite the fog, seasoned crypto entrepreneurs &#8211; such as Nayib Bukele of El Salvador and Changpeng &#8220;CZ&#8221; Zhao from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/blog\/in-the-new-budget-canada-will-examine-crypto-stablecoins-and-cbdcs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Canada <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; continue to push forward their visions for financial freedom without stopping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/blog\/ftx-alameda-accounts-frozen-by-kraken\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FTX and Alameda accounts frozen by crypto exchange Kraken<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why Does Bitcoin Differ From FTX?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bitcoin has mainstreamed in El Salvador, thanks to Bukele. He explained why Bitcoin differs from FTX even after receiving backlash for buying BTC when markets crashed. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FTX is the opposite of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bitcoin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bitcoin<\/a> \u2019s protocol was created precisely to prevent Ponzi schemes, bank runs, Enron\u2019s, WorldCom\u2019s, Bernie Madoff\u2019s, Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026bailouts and wealth reassignments.<\/p>\n<p>Some understand it, some not yet.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re still early.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0e\/21m<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1591951579930058752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As President Bukele explained the inner workings of Bitcoin, FTX is the opposite of Bitcoin. An immutable peer-to-peer network is essential to achieving a trustless financial system, according to the Bitcoin white paper. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read precisely: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoin.org\/bitcoin.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what is peer-to-peer electric cash system in brief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, he pointed out that the Bitcoin protocol prevents people from committing financial crimes, but FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and Bernie Madoff missed it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A key point in his message in support of Bitcoin is a scarce asset to own, with a limited <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">market capitalization<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of 21 million. The crypto community overwhelmingly reacted with &#8220;he gets it&#8221; replies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/blog\/securities-regulators-freeze-ftx-assets\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Securities regulators in the Bahamas freeze FTX assets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the United States Representative, Brad Sherman, &#8216;billionaire crypto bros&#8217; are directly involved in campaign contributions, causing lawmaking delays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Sherman, SBF funded $39.8 million for the midterm elections in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bukele explained that Bitcoin differs from FTX despite the backlash he received for purchasing BTC when markets crashed. Investor confidence was severely shaken by the FTX explosion, which sent shock waves worldwide. Despite the fog, seasoned crypto entrepreneurs &#8211; such as Nayib Bukele of El Salvador and Changpeng &#8220;CZ&#8221; Zhao from Canada &#8211; continue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2757,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/2757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcoinprice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}